Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-01-21
Personal.

| Postmaster W. A. Burke has returned
from Washington city, whether ne WehI
to make formal application for the free
letter delivery service in Stanton under
/! the new law.
Mrs. Pratt, the venerable mother OF
Capt. G. Julian Pratt, is lying dangerous
~ ill at Charestown, Jefferson county
Mrs. Capt. Pratt, and the wives OF heI
| other two sons are at her bedside.
We have received copy of very inter.
esting report On Public Health and
Hygiene" made by DR.. Arthur Z. Koiner
of igganoke city, and formerly of Augusta
county. He Is now filing the position OF
lecturer on Physiology and Hygiene at
Roanoke college.
Miss Bowen, cf Medina, N. Y, who
las been visiting friends in Augusta, was
last week in Harrisonburg, where her
father. Col. E. A. Bowen of the 2Sth N
Y. Vol, was provost marshal for a time
| during the occupation of that town by
the Union forces. He was very kind to
the people there, and when he was after
wards captured by the Confederates they
signed petition to the Confederate gov
~ernmeRt for his release. Daring his
daughters visit many Of the citi zens
there called on her, on public invitation
extended by her to them. She is now in
Washington on her return home.
DR.. j. w. Hogsett. of Saltill0ville, Ind.
who has been visiting relations in this
] county, has returned home.
Mr.. J. E. Tinsley, the architect. who
with his family, has been visiting rela-
tlves In Amherst county, returned last
week. HIS daughter Miss Mabel Tinsle
who has been visiting relations in Lynch.
burg. returned with them.
Misses Jennie and Mary Mcclure. OF
Waynesboro, are visiting at Or. Hunter
MeGuire's in Richmond.
OF Judge Mclaughlin, who held the
term of the FauquIer Circuit Court there,
closing on the 18th inst, the WarrenLon
Index" says: Judge Mclaughlin has
won golden opinions with the bar, the
jury and the suitors in his court by the
urbanity of his manner and the clearn ess
Of his judicial rulings.'
We have received al invitation to the
Anniversary Celebration OF thu Graham
Lee Literary Society, of Washington &
Lee University, January 18Th. Among the
Dabaters were }. l.. Bungardner, Jr.,
and FL. W. Holt.
Mrs. DR.. A. NJ. Henkel on Mon day
evening last. gave reception in compli-
ment TO the Misses Turney, of Mo-, who
are visiting their Sister. Mrs. DR.. II. II
Henkel. There were some thirty or forty
ladies and gentlemen present.
The Misses Nelson entertained the
Musicale Club last Tuesday evening at
their residence on Coalter street.
Rev. W. S. P. Bryan has declined the call
extended to him by the church at Leetsdale,
tPa.
telegram was received yesterday announc-
ing that the Court of Appeals had confirmed
the sale of the Rockbridge Alum Springs to
Mr. Campbell. Mr.. Frazier is now in posses
sion.
/. Miss Laura Van Pelt, who has been quite
i'll with infammatory rheumatism, has been
removed to the residence of her father, James
Fl. Van Pelt, Esq, in Harrisonburg
Capt Samuel H. Cohn has just returned
from visit to relatives in Allentown. Pa.
telegram received yesterday by Mr.. S. M.
Donald from Havana, Cuba, announces the
death there of NJ G. Davis President of the
American Manganese Company, in this coun-
ty